Programme PhotOn Festival 2019

  CONFERENCE //Pedro Armestre and Almudena Moreno TUESDAY 7th MAY. 18.30H OCTUBRE CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA. Free entry. PEDRO ARMESTRE. A Rasela, Verín. Ourense.  He started his career in 1993 in the agency Europa Press, the agency Cover, El Mundo and other media. Between 2003 and 2016 his images are distributed by the International agency France Presse and other distribution [...]

  CONFERENCE //Eva Mañez FRIDAY 10th DE MAY. 17.30H CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU. AULA MAGNA. Free entry. Eva Máñez, Valencia 1971, is a photographer in Valencia. After completing the Superior Formative Cycle of Photography, in the Superior School of Art and Design of Valencia (EASD) she made worshops with photographers of the prestigious agency Magnum. She attended a postgraduate course [...]

  CONFERENCE //Anna Surinyach THURSDAY 09TH MAY. 19.30H CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU. AULA MAGNA. Free entry. I am a Spanish freelance photojournalist focusing on migration, refugees and human rights issues based in Barcelona. In the last decade I’ve been covering Africa, Asia and South America and increasing my knowledge about global migrations, as well as health and humanitarian crisis. I’ve been working as [...]

  CONFERENCE //Yolanda Domínguez FRIDAY 10th MAY. 19.30H CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU. AULA MAGNA. Free entry. Art can change the world, and that is one of the reasons why Yolanda Domínguez, an artist who is an expert in communication and gender, uses it to awaken social awareness and empower people. Her way of working consists of creating actions that relate [...]

  CONFERENCE // Liza Ambrossio THURSDAY 09TH MAY. 17.30H CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU. AULA MAGNA. Free entry. Her universe incorporates symbols alluding to witchcraft that she mixes with her written narrative, photographs, installations and videos that she unites by free association. Related to theories related to psychological manipulation and its influence on the continuation or rupture of the power professed [...]

  CONFERENCE // Estela de Castro SATURDAY 11TH MAY. 19.30H CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU. AULA MAGNA. Free entry.   Estela de Castro (Madrid 1978) Photographer. She started her photography studies when she was 15 years old at "Look" School in Madrid. In 2012 she obtained a scholarship at the Seminar of Photography and Journalism of the Fundación Santa María de [...]

Workshop SIGMA PHOTON  2019 EDU PONCES FROM RUIDO PHOTO Is it possible to bet on deep photojournalism in the midst of the crisis of traditional media? Can a photographer dedicate a year to a project and not be ruined in the attempt? RUIDO Photo has been demonstrating that it can for 15 years and this workshop will offer methodological tools [...]

  JARQUE, LA CÁMARA Y LA VIDA // Paco JArque 5th june to 29th septiembre 2019 MUSEU VALENCIÀ D'ETNOLOGIA This exhibition is part of a year in which several tributes are paid to Paco Jarque, an icon in the world of photography in Valencia who died in 2016. Jarque's long career is difficult to summarise. He was a prolific creator [...]

  AGITADORAS DE CONCIENCIA // Collective Women Photographers 7th may to 15th june  2019 URBAN CIRCUIT EMT and METRO "Agitadoras de conciencia" is a collective exhibition that gives voice to women photographers. Powerful women who carry out a great job to make visible the problems of society and the role of women in the world in general and in photography [...]

LLANO // Juanita Escobar 7th may to 30th may 2019 LA FNAC Love has its geography, it is rooted and carved by the land where it is born, by the culture that dreams of it. "Llano" tells a love story with a land and a way of life, a geography that outlines and gives body to that romance. A love [...]

  PHOTON WORLDWIDE // Colectiva 7th may to 30th  may 2019 SALA LAMETRO This exhibition is the result of links established thanks to the European network of festivals, PHEN. In addition, in this edition we add new collaboration with the NL-Foto International Photography Festival in Monterrey, Mexico. The exposed authors are the winners in the calls generated between PhotOn Festival, [...]

  DesTieRRRadas // Pedro Armestre 7th may to 31st may 2019 OCTUBRE CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA.  Threats, persecutions, criminalizations and death. The defenders of the right to land, water and other natural resources who interfere with the interests of big business in developing countries face all of this. The violation of human rights in regions such as Central America or [...]

  LITTLE BLACK DRESS // Yolanda Domínguez 7th may to 9th june 2019 CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU. CLAUSTRE. The myth of the black dress at the bottom of the wardrobe hides many monsters. Social monsters that constrain women. Society encloses us in a perfect black dress in which we must all fit. Those that do not fit are not acceptable. [...]